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Facts About Waste and Recycling

The UK produces more than 100 million tonnes of waste every year,<br>one tonne is about the weight of a small car.

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Facts About Waste and Recycling

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  1. Facts About Waste and Recycling

  2. The UK produces more than 100 million tonnes of waste every year, one tonne is about the weight of a small car. In less than two hours, the waste we produce would fill the Albert Hall in London

  3. On average, each person in the UK throws away their own body weight in rubbish every seven weeks.

  4. The average UK family throws away 6 trees worth of paper in their household bin a year.

  5. Paper and card make up about a fifth of the typical household dustbin. About half of this consists of newspapers and magazines

  6. Two-thirds of paper is recycled, making it one of the main materials recycled in the UK.

  7. Each Christmas as much as 83 square kilometers of wrapping paper ends up in UK rubbish bins, enough to cover an area larger than Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands.

  8. It is not known how long glass takes to break down, but it is so long that glass made in the Middle East over 3,000 years ago can still be found today.

  9. Contact US For more information about Recycling www.tgmenvironmental.co.uk Info@tgmenvironmental.co.uk Charlton, London

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